quotations about funerals
FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.
AMBROSE BIERCE
The Devil's Dictionary
Funerals are pretty compared to death. Funerals are quiet, but deaths not always.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
A Streetcar Named Desire
Enemies always attend each other's funerals. I guess it is a way of knowing they won.
M.C.V. EGAN
Defined by Others
Never joke at funerals, or during business transactions.
HERMAN MELVILLE
Israel Potter
Funerals open a door normally closed, showing the raw humanity of so many.
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES
"Michael Jackson: The Black Tribal Funeral", The Moderate Voice, July 7, 2009
Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had much better been concealed; namely, that their vanity has survived themselves.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon